ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,522, issued on March 17, was assigned to Get Together AI Inc. (Cincinnati).

"Channel agnostic scheduling system" was invented by Michael Bell (Cincinnati), Madison A. Bell (Cincinnati) and Wen Ding (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that allows for channel and platform agnostic automated scheduling. A user that is registered with the system may add an automated assistant into a pre-existing communication thread or channel, such as a short messaging service ("SMS") conversation between multiple friends. Any user in the thread may interact with the assistant even if not registered with the system. Once present,...